Kaleidoscope World

The Chills | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 23, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Homestead
• ASIN: B000000IMY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,947 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Kaleidoscope World

2. Satin Doll

3. Frantic Drift

4. Rolling Moon

5. Bite

6. Flame Thrower

7. Pink Frost

8. Purple Girl

9. This Is the Way

10. Never Never Go

11. Don't Even Know Her Name

12. Bee Bah Bee Bah Bee Boe

13. Whole Weird World

14. Dream by Dream

15. Doledrums

16. Hidden Bay

17. I Love My Leather Jacket

18. The Great Escape

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Album of the Year at the 1997 Lincoln Howard Music Awards!, November 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Kaleidoscope World (Audio CD)

I'm still amazed at the quality of this album. It doesn't have one of two fabulous songs, it has about five or six. Not to leave out the rest of the album, because the whole thing is great, but the songs I would single out as being among the best ever recorded would be: Satin Doll, Pink Frost, I Don't Even Know Her Name, and Doledrums. A few others follow closely behind. And I would like to go on record by saying the end of "Doledrums" is the best part of any song I've ever heard in my life. How Martin Phillipps put that one together I'll never know, but spending the $14-15 dollars or so is worth it just to hear the end of that song. Well worth your money if you like melodic music that paints a picture of the macabre in a lot of the songs. Dig it...

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars sheer brilliance, April 5, 2007

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Ludwig J. Pluralist "avantepopgospeler" (Beacon, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kaleidoscope World (Audio CD)

I love a lot of Kiwi alt rock bands, and while the Chills may not be my favorites (that would have to be the wonderful band The Clean), this is, nevertheless, a wonderful, brilliant record. Filled with quirky details and loaded with lo-fi charm and appeal, this is what great rock music sounds like, and it's the best recording by this talented band (it's actually a compilation of different EPs). It also has one of the catchiest pop-rock songs ever written, the amazing I Love My Leather Jacket.

I only wish Kaleidoscope World were still available for purchase. I also wish the Chills would consider a U.S. tour, but alas, they seem content to stick around their home country and to play only the occasional show.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars some of the best pop the kiwis have to offer, August 3, 2004

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Davy (Athens, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kaleidoscope World (Audio CD)

this here is a collection of the chills' early singles, etc. and it's probably, speaking critically, the best thing they've put out. not all, but most of their "classics" are here, including the legendary "pink frost" and "i love my leather jacket." the thing i like most about this album is the feeling of being totally immersed in kiwi pop culture. of all the kiwi pop albums i've heard since spring (and that's quite a lot), this one sounds the most authentic. people always say that something they love is "transporting", but they rarely mean it. well, i'm going to say it AND mean it, right here: the chills' _kaleidoscope world_ is...transporting.